RESUME - Tullaya Boonsaeng
PERSONAL DATA:
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX, 79409
Email: tullaya.boonsaeng@ttu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 2006, Economics
M.A. University of Colorado at Denver, 2000, Economics
B.S. Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1996, Agricultural Economics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Consumer Demand, Agricultural Policy
Refereed Journal Publications
-Castellon, C., T., Boonsaeng, and C.E. Carpio: “Demand System Estimation in the Absence of
Price Data.” Applied Economics 47,(6) (2015):553-568.
-Carpio, C.E., O.A. Ramirez, and T. Boonsaeng: “Potential for Tradable Water Allocation and
Rights in Jordan.” Land Economics 87,4(2011):595-609.
-Boonsaeng T. and S.M. Fletcher: “The Impacts of U.S. Nonprice Export Promotion Program on
Export Demand for Peanuts in North America.” Peanut Science 37(2010): 70-77.
-Carpio, C.E., S. Zapata, and T. Boonsaeng. “Existing and Potential Market Conditions for Farm
to School Programs in Western North Carolina” Research Report. Journal of Food
Distribution Research, 41,1 (2010):14-19.
-Boonsaeng T. and M.K. Wohlgenant: “A Dynamic Approach to Estimating and Testing
Separability in U.S. Demand for Imported and Domestic Meats.” Canadian Journal of
Agricultural Economics 51(March 2009): 139-157.
-Boonsaeng, T., S.M., Fletcher, and C.E. Carpio: “European Union Import Demand for In-Shell
Peanuts” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40(December, 2008): 941-951.
-Carpio, C.E., M.K., Wohlgenant and T. Boonsaeng: “The Demand for Agritourism in the
United States.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 33(August 2008):
254-269.
Presented and Published in Proceedings or Abstracts of Scientific Conferences
-Boonsaeng, T., and C.E. Carpio. “A Comparison of Food Demand Estimation from Homescan
and Consumer Expenditure Survey Data” Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural
and Applied Economics Association, Minneapolis, MN July 2014.
-Carpio, C.E., Boonsaeng, T., C. Zhen, and A. Okrent. “The Effect of Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program on Food and Nonfood Spending among Low-Income Households.”
Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association,
Minneapolis, MN July 2014.
-Mathews, L.G., C.E. Carpio, T. Boonsaeng, C. Jackson, A. Perrett, and K. Descieux. Do
Consumer Know What their Local Logo Means? 2014 Annual Meetings & Conference of
the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, Burlington, VT, June 19, 2014.
-Boonsaeng, T., C.E., Carpio, C., Zhen and A. Okrent: “The Effect of Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program on Food Spending Among Low-Income Households”: Refereed
paper accepted for presentation at the annual meetings of the American Agricultural and
Applied Economics Association, Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012.
-Brady, K., C.E., Carpio and T. Boonsaeng: “Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Food
Demand using Cross Sectional Data”: Refereed paper accepted for presentation at the
annual meetings of the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association,
Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012.
-Castellon, C., T., Boonsaeng and C.E. Carpio: “Demand System Estimation in the Absence of
Price Data”: Refereed paper accepted for presentation at the annual meetings of the
American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Seattle, Washington, August
12-14, 2012.
-Carpio, C.E., O.A., Ramirez and T. Boonsaeng: “Potential for Tradable Water Allocation and
Rights in Jordan”: Refereed paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southern
Agricultural Economics Association, Orlando, Florida, February 6-9, 2010.
-Fletcher, S.M. and T. Boonsaeng: “Generic and Brand Advertising: Is There an Economic
Impact on U.S. Demand for Peanut Butter?”: Refereed paper presented at the annual
meetings of the Western Agricultural Economics Association, Kauai, Hawaii, June 24-26,
Works in Progress
- The Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Food Spending Among LowIncome Households
- Data Collection Period and Food Demand System Estimation using Cross Sectional Data
- US Household Demand for Healthy and Unhealthy Snacks
- A Comparison of Food Demand Estimation from Homescan and Consumer Expenditure Survey
Data
- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Household Spending: A Flexible Demand
System Approach
Grants
Current:
“Do SNAP Recipients Get the Best Prices?” Sponsored by USDA – Economic Research
Service, FoodAPS Research Initiative. Co-Principal Investigator with Conrad Lyford,
Carlos Carpio and Tullaya Boonsaeng from 06/01/2014-12/31/2015 ($39,776).
-“Developing a Regional Branding Model for Small and Medium Sized Farms” Sponsored by
U.S. Department of Agriculture AFRI-Foundational Program. Co-Investigator with Leah
Mathews, Charlie Jackson, Allison Perrett, and Carlos Carpio $498,913, 01/01/2012 to
31/12/2016.
-“The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Household Spending: A Flexible Demand
System Approach.” Sponsored by Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program. Principle Investigator with Carlos E. Carpio
and Chen Zhen $105,000, 01/10/2011 to 30/9/2014.
-“Data Sources and Food Demand Estimation: A Comparison of Homescan and Consumer
Expenditure Survey Data.” Sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture AFRI-Foundational
Program. Co-Investigator with Carlos E. Carpio $225,882, 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2014.